Description ADULT BREEDING Has streaked gray-brown back and brown wings with two buff wing bars. Nape is gray in taverneri, gray-buff in breweri, and all birds have gray-brown crown and pale-centered brown ear coverts, with pale gray supercilium and lores, and pale throat bordered by dark malar stripe. Underparts are otherwise almost unmarked pale gray-buff. ADULT NONBREEDING Similar, but paler overall and with less contrast in streaking and face markings. JUVENILE More heavily streaked (especially taverneri) than respective adult.

Dimensions Length: 5" (13 cm)

Habitat Common summer visitor (mainly Apr-Aug) to dense brush and sagebrush habitats; winters in arid sagebrush and brushy desert habitats in southwestern U.S. and Mexico.